Category: Food & drinks
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Review: Bancone City is Italy in all its glory – ballsy, bold and beautiful. As close to Rome as it gets
It starts, as so many minor life crises do, with a photo on the internet. The silk handkerchief pasta – technically fazzoletti, those impossibly thin, folded sheets of fresh pasta draped in walnut butter and pooling around a confit egg yolk – is one of those images you encounter once and simply can’t get out of…
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Review: Workshop Cafe & Academy – The beloved London roaster is back with excellent coffee and real neighbourhood charm
If you’ve ever wandered through Eccleston Yards on a Saturday morning -takeaway cup in hand, feeling inexplicably smug about your postcode – you’ll already understand the particular energy of this corner of Belgravia. It’s one of those eclectic London areas that feels both genuinely neighbourhood-y and semi-aspirational: independent boutiques, café terraces, and the kind of crowd that…
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May in food: The best London restaurants launching this month
Throughout the first few months of this year, we’ve ridden some grand, sweeping waves of restaurant and bar openings. Among the mass, Weezie’s claimed its spot next to sibling Amie Wine, Fenix brought full Greek island chic to Mayfair, and Poolhouse launched the UK’s biggest pool site to date. But spring has turned up the…
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Review: Sova is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern European wine – and it arrived at the right time
The beginning of April saw a number of exciting restaurants blossom – and even in the midst of some loud voices at the table – Sova managed to be heard. Meaning “owl” in several Slavic languages, Sova is the new Eastern European restaurant/bar to land in Ladbroke Grove, taking over the old ZIMA Notting Hill…
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Review: Viajante87 is the hidden cocktail bar serving late-night Latin-American energy
Notting Hill, West London – Cocktail bar & late-night venue If you’re longing for a direct flight to Mexico but have four remaining days of annual leave to ration until August, you might as well make peace with it over a Horchata Colada at a Latin American bar in Notting Hill. Viajante87 (viajante meaning traveller…
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Poolhouse is London’s most glamorous new venue – and yes, you’re there to play pool
The team behind Topgolf and Puttshack have a clear formula: take something familiar, strip it back, rebuild it properly, and make the room beautiful while you’re at it. Poolhouse – their latest venue, now open at 100 Liverpool Street – applies the same logic to pool. Twenty tables across 21,000 square feet, AI-assisted gameplay, a…
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This just in: Wahaca is giving away free chocolate ice cream tacos next week
A Tony’s Chocolonely ice cream taco is exactly the kind of fever-dream creation Willy Wonka would have scrawled on a napkin at 3am. We’d absolutely pay serious money for it, and we’re fairly confident we’re not alone on this one. But for one day only, Wahaca is kindly treating Londoners to 100 of these marvellous…
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Weezie’s is the new thin-crust pizza spot to land in Eccleston Yards, from the team behind Amie Wine Studio
There are certain parts of London that just have it figured out. Eccleston Yards – that quiet, cobbled pocket of Belgravia – is one of them. It’s the kind of enchanting summer place where you pop in for a glass of wine and somehow end up staying for three hours. A lot of that is…
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Review: The Cellar Club – There’s now a cocktail bar hiding under one of Bermondsey’s best restaurants
Flour & Grape has been one of the better Italian restaurants in South London for years. But the most exciting thing about it right now might actually be what’s underneath it. The Cellar Club just opened in the basement, and it’s a proper cocktail bar – not a refined hotel bar with a posh menu,…
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Award-winning Scarfes Bar has a new Heroes & Villains cocktail menu, and it’s dangerously good
There are bars that serve cocktails, and then there are bars that serve pure art in cocktail form. Scarfes Bar has been doing the latter since it opened in 2014, and its accomplishments over the years have earned it all the bragging rights. Its trophy cabinet includes No. 31 in the World’s 50 Best Bars,…
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